Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-05-18

Inc Canadian Pacific railway by another
!nolan. heseve, where the deed took place,
IS near the international boundary to Da-
kota. The provisional police are investi-
eating the case. The murderer was arrested.
The New York Financial Chronicle
says that Messss. Morton, Rose e. Co.. of
LONDON are receiving applications for
$5'o00,W0O part OF an authorized issue of
Of the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie &
Atlantic Railway company, at the price of
e19o per 81, 1000 bond.
The Ramsey County Grand Jury
found indictments for granddaughter in the
first degree against Charles and Bertha
Hegener of Minneapolis, for the killing of
a man at st. Paul. They were brought
before Judge Wilkin, Tuesday, and gave
bail in $4,000 to appear for trial, having first
plead not gully.
At the last board of trade meeting at
Austin, Mimi, arrangements were COM
pleted for the final survey from Rochester
to Austin of the Duluth, Red Wing &
Southern railroad. As soon as the survey
directors of the road. The city council will
pay for the survey.
The last rail of the Bottineau branch
of the Manitoba roa was laid May II and
it is expected the line will be open for
traffic next week. The line runs from Rug
by junction forty miles northwest to Bot
district west and south of the Turtle noun
tain region.
At Lanesboro, MIMI, on Wednes-
day an eight year old son of Ole o. Running
living on q farm with his parents dropped a
loaded revolver which he had found in a
drawer on the floor, discharging the weap-
year old brother, killing him instantly.
Three fires occurred at Minneapolis,
Mimi, during the night of the 18th, two of
them being of minor consequence and the
third involving the destruction of the Cedar
Lake shops of the Minneapolis and st. Louis
railroad, that loss amounting to $4,000. The
other losses are stated at $1,000.
Mrs. Christina johnson was fatally
burned in a boarding house at Minneapolis,
Mimi, on the 18th. The room occupied by
herself n husband was set on fire by the
overturn'ng of a lamp during a QUARREL,
both being intoxicated. The man was also
burned but not fatally.
On the 18th, Pierre, OAK, voted
S~CjOOO al JULIUS " ~ Cu0 Du4uLu I10IT0 ~
Black Hills railroad. President Hill, of the
pected the road will reach Pierre from
Aberdeen by December. There were 10
opposition votes.
P. B. Groat, immigration agent of
the Northern Pacific R. R at St. Paul,
MIMI, will sail for Europe next Wednesday
to take charge of the exhibition of North
western products to be made at the Amer
lean exposition in London, by the Northern
Pacific.
Forest fires at Munsing, Autrian,
Forest City, Nestoria, Three Lakes and
Negaunel, Mich, and Wausaukee, Wis,
nave lone vast damage to standing timber,
cut ties and wood. None of the villages had
been destroyed at the time Of this report.
The twenty-year bonds of Sioux
Falls, Oak, to the amount of. $4,000, given
to the Cedar Rapids, Iowa Falls & North
western road, have been sold to Melvin
Grugsby for 3s per cent premium, he being
the highest bidder.
At Des Moines, Iowa, May g., Rev.
J.. W. Taylor, pastor of the African Metho
dist church, died of consumption. This is
the third consecut. We severance of pastoral
relations by death this church has suffered
in three years.
L. AXE, second baseman of the Duluth,
Mimi, base ball club, was drowned at La
| Crosse, Wis, on the evening of the nth,
while boat riding near the head of Baron
| island. His home was at Altoona, Pa.
At Dodge Center, MINI, the founda-
ton is being laid for the erection Of a 200
barrel daily capacity flour mill, also a feed
mill of 1OO-bushe!s per hour capacity. 1t
will be in running order by Sept.
Congressman Lind has appointed
Aaron c. Pearson of st. Peter, Mimi, to
fill the vacancy caused by tho resignation
Of E. F. Soaring, as cadet at the military
academy at West Point.
Col. D. A. Robertson of St. Paul,
MINI, with his family was upon the steamer
La Champagne which was damaged by col
lision near Havre. The accident caused de-
lay in their homeward trip. W
Thos. Britt of Grand Forks, employ
ed OF Minot, Oak, in the Manitoba round
house, while cleaning out an ashbox of s
locomotive had both legs cut of by a sue
den start of the machine. w..
re SbulIO CAtCASASO ACPS1So p PAOAAcIACO
Of the wheat crop in Minnesota and Dakota
at this date, and from these it is deducet
that the total crop of 1887 vii aggregate
81, 100000 bushels.
Fred HUFFMAN, a farmer living
eight miles west Of Fairmont, dropped
dead from heart disease in front of II
Wehrenberg's store in Shsrburn village
Mimi, May 8.
May IL was the thirtieth anniversary
of Minnesota's statehood, it having bee,
admitted into the Union May II, 1858. Hon
II. II. Sibley was Governor the first year.
VIM. Sutton, a sewer contractor wa
buried alive in a sewer trench May II, I
st. Paul, When the unfortunate man wa
dug out he had long been dead.
About one half Of the town OF Minot
Dakota, the present terminus OF tn
ManitobaR r., was destroyed by tire o.
the 9th. Loss S50,000.
Two houses and blacksmith shop q
Glyndon, Mimi, burned on the 9th. Los